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Der Stimmenimitator

by Modell Doo feat. Robert Reinagl

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Thomas Bernhard's literature contains a certain mercilessness. The collection of short prose pieces that he called "The Voice Imitator" (Der Stimmenimitator) in 1978 combines the harshness of his world and misanthropy with poetic sophistication and extravagant narrative maneuvers; this series of anecdotes is one of the least known, but most exciting works of the writer. The almost surrealistic wit so typical for Bernhard permeates these short stories – there are absurd fables, laconic death case studies and abysmal local news. The horror of the narrations is kept in suspension by the sarcastic conciseness of the author’s writing.

20 of the 104 prose pieces in the volume are currently being set to music by Austrian experimentalists Modell Doo, in collaboration with the actor Robert Reinagl, who otherwise works in the ensemble of the Vienna Burgtheater. The result will be neither an audio book nor a literary opera, but a completely new, possibly alien liaison of text and composition: 20 fierce sound miniatures in which prose performance and electronic avant-pop genuinely merge. Reinagl's ambiguous recitation reworks the protocol of the tragic-comic events that Bernhard unleashed with feverish insidiousness, while the music subverts both the acting and the text blocks themselves, thereby creating unimagined additional levels.

The commemorations for Thomas Bernhard's 90th birthday are due in 2021. This new adaptation of "The Voice Imitator" will then serve in several ways to refresh the memory of Bernhard's incredible power of speech and contempt for death.

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released January 2, 2021

Prose: Thomas Bernhard
Music: Modell Doo, with a lot of help from Bernhard Knibbe
Recitation: Robert Reinagl

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Modell Doo Vienna, Austria

MD, formed in 1985, are a Viennese duo specializing in avant-garde sound projects and rhythm-driven experimental pop music. They have been scoring two underground films by Carl Andersen during the late 80s, documented on the vinyl album "Frame Electric" (2012). Their latest effort is a science-based concept vinyl album called "Orbit Utopia" – 12 tracks for 12 amazingly bizarre biographies. ... more

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